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Unincorporated area
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Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. In some countries, such as in Brazil, Japan, France or the United Kingdom, unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath state and territorial governments. A local government area often contains several towns and even entire cities, thus, aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other special cases, almost all of Australia is part of an LGA. Unincorporated areas are often in locations, cover vast areas or have very small populations. Postal addresses in unincorporated areas, as in parts of Australia. Thus, there is any ambiguity regarding addresses in unincorporated areas. The Australian Capital Territory has no municipalities and is in some sense an unincorporated area, the territorial government is directly responsible for matters normally carried out by local government. The far west and north of New South Wales constitutes the Unincorporated Far West Region, a civil servant in the state capital manages such matters as are necessary. The second unincorporated area of state is Lord Howe Island. In the Northern Territory,1. 45% of the area and 4. In South Australia, 60% of the area is unincorporated and communities located within can receive services provided by a state agency. Firstly, the remote area that is unincorporated is the Abrolhos Islands. Secondly, the unincorporated areas are A-class reserves either in, or close to. In Canada, depending on the province, a settlement is one that does not have a municipal council that governs solely over the settlement. It is usually, but not always, part of a municipal government. This can range from hamlets to large urbanized areas that are similar in size to towns. In British Columbia, unincorporated settlements lie outside municipal boundaries entirely, Unincorporated settlements with a population of between 100 and 1,000 residents may have the status of designated place in Canadian census data. In some provinces, large tracts of undeveloped wilderness or rural country are unorganized areas that fall directly under the provincial jurisdiction

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Williamson County, Texas
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Williamson County is a county in the U. S. state of Texas. As of the 2016 census estimate, the population was 545,412, the county is named for Robert McAlpin Williamson, a community leader and veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. Williamson County is part of the Austin-Round Rock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, the two areas are roughly bisected by Interstate 35. Much of Williamson County has been the site of habitation for at least 11,200 years. The earliest known inhabitants of the area lived during the late Pleistocene, one of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed The Leanderthal Lady because of its age and proximity to Leander, Texas. It was discovered by accident by the Texas Department of Transportation workers while drilling core samples for a new highway, the site has been extensively studied for many years and samples from this site carbon date to the Pleistocene period at approximately 10,500 years ago. Such evidence of Archaic Period inhabitants is often in the form of relics, many such sites were inundated when the San Gabriel River was dammed to create Lake Granger. During the eighteenth century made the transition to a horse culture. After they were crowded out by white settlement, the Comanches continued to raid settlements in the county until the 1860s. There also appear to have small numbers of Kiowa, Yojuane, Tawakoni. On September 9 and 10,1921, the remnants of a hurricane moved over Williamson County, the center of the storm became stationary over Thrall, a small farming town in eastern Williamson County, dropping a storm total of 39.7 inches of rain in 36 hours. The 24-hour rainfall total ending 7 am on September 10,1921 at a U. S. Weather Bureau station in Thrall remains the national official 24-hour rainfall record. Thralls rainfall was 23.4 in during 6 hours,31.8 in during 12 hours, eighty-seven people drowned in and near Taylor, and 93 in Williamson County. This storm caused the most deadly floods in Texas, with a total of 215 fatalities, on May 27,1997, Williamson County was hit by the worst tornado outbreak in county history. The 1997 Central Texas Tornado Outbreak caused 20 tornadoes including an F-5, the F-5 tornado killed 27 people and completely destroyed the Double Creek Estates neighborhood in the city of Jarrell, Texas, Texas, located in far northern Williamson County. Another strong tornado, an F-3, struck the City of Cedar Park, two F-2 tornadoes also struck Williamson County. The outbreak cost the county over $190 million USD in damage, Williamson Countys fast growth rate is due in large part to its location immediately north of Austin coupled with Austins rapid expansion northward. Austins city limits cross into Williamson County making Austin the largest city in Williamson County and this has transformed Williamson county over recent years into a dynamic self-sustaining community with less dependency on Austin

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Texas
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Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Other major cities include Austin, the second most populous state capital in the U. S. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the states struggle for independence from Mexico. The Lone Star can be found on the Texan state flag, the origin of Texass name is from the word Tejas, which means friends in the Caddo language. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, although Texas is popularly associated with the U. S. southwestern deserts, less than 10 percent of Texas land area is desert. Most of the centers are located in areas of former prairies, grasslands, forests. Traveling from east to west, one can observe terrain that ranges from coastal swamps and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, the term six flags over Texas refers to several nations that have ruled over the territory. Spain was the first European country to claim the area of Texas, Mexico controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming an independent Republic. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as the 28th state, the states annexation set off a chain of events that caused the Mexican–American War in 1846. A slave state before the American Civil War, Texas declared its secession from the U. S. in early 1861, after the Civil War and the restoration of its representation in the federal government, Texas entered a long period of economic stagnation. One Texan industry that thrived after the Civil War was cattle, due to its long history as a center of the industry, Texas is associated with the image of the cowboy. The states economic fortunes changed in the early 20th century, when oil discoveries initiated a boom in the state. With strong investments in universities, Texas developed a diversified economy, as of 2010 it shares the top of the list of the most Fortune 500 companies with California at 57. With a growing base of industry, the leads in many industries, including agriculture, petrochemicals, energy, computers and electronics, aerospace. Texas has led the nation in export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product. The name Texas, based on the Caddo word tejas meaning friends or allies, was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves, during Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas, La Provincia de Texas. Texas is the second largest U. S. state, behind Alaska, though 10 percent larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany or Japan, it ranks only 27th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile, Texas is in the south central part of the United States of America. Three of its borders are defined by rivers, the Rio Grande forms a natural border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Hutto, Texas
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Hutto is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, the population was 14,698 at the 2010 census. Hutto is located at 30°32′40″N 97°32′43″W, about seven miles east of Round Rock and 22 miles northeast of Austin, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.75 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,250 people,398 households, the population density was 1,297.8 people per square mile. There were 424 housing units at a density of 440.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 76. 48% White,5. 36% African American,0. 72% Native American,0. 24% Asian,15. 52% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 26. 72% of the population. 15. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.14 and the average family size was 3.48. In the city, the population was out with 35. 0% under the age of 18,7. 4% from 18 to 24,37. 0% from 25 to 44,13. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 29 years, for every 100 females there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males, the median income for a household in the city was $53,295, and the median income for a family was $55,769. Males had an income of $33,125 versus $28,125 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,113, about 3. 8% of families and 4. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 9% of those under age 18 and 2. 0% of those age 65 or over. Historically, Hutto was not established until 1876 when the International-Great Northern Railroad passed through land owned by James Emory Hutto, Railroad officials designated the stop Hutto Station. James Hutto was born in Alabama on June 8,1824, he came to Texas in 1847 and it was in 1876 that James Hutto sold 50 acres to the Texas Land Company of New York for a town site and railroad right of way. Hutto had become a cattleman in Williamson County, however, in 1885 he left Hutto and moved to Waco. Other early settlers in the area were the Carpenter, Davis, Evans, Farley, Goodwin, Highsmith, Johnson, Magle, Payne, Saul, Weight, Womack, other people living in Hutto during the 1890s included the Armstrongs, the Ahlbergs, M. B. Kennedy, the Hugh Kimbro family, William McCutcheon, Green Randolph, J. B. Ross, soon a great many more people, primarily Swedish and German immigrants, came to this area to farm and ranch and begin their new lives in America. Hutto is served by the Hutto Independent School District, Hutto Public Library is the local library

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Austin, Texas
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Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. It is the 11th-most populous city in the U. S. and it is the fastest growing large city in the United States and the second most populous capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. As of the U. S. Census Bureaus July 1,2015 estimate and it is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 2,056,405 as of July 1,2016. In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River, in 1839, the site was officially chosen to replace Houston as the new capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name Waterloo. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas and the republics first secretary of state. The city subsequently grew throughout the 19th century and became a center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. After a lull in growth from the Great Depression, Austin resumed its development into a city and, by the 1980s, it emerged as a center for technology. A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin, including Amazon. com, cisco, eBay, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Texas Instruments, 3M, and Whole Foods Market. Dells worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers. The city also adopted Silicon Hills as a nickname in the 1990s due to an influx of technology. In the late 1800s, Austin was known as the City of the Violet Crown because of the glow of light across the hills just after sunset. Even today, many Austin businesses use the term Violet Crown in their name, Austin is known as a clean-air city for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places and buildings, including restaurants and bars. The FBI ranked Austin as the second-safest major city in the U. S. for the year 2012, U. S. News & World Report named Austin the best place to live in the U. S. in 2017. Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of habitation since at least 9200 BC. When settlers arrived from Europe, the Tonkawa tribe inhabited the area, the Comanches and Lipan Apaches were also known to travel through the area. Spanish colonists, including the Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre expedition, traveled through the area for centuries, in 1730, three missions from East Texas were combined and reestablished as one mission on the south side of the Colorado River, in what is now Zilker Park, in Austin. The mission was in area for only about seven months

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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation

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County seat
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A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. In the United States, counties are the subdivisions of a state. Depending on the state, counties may provide services to the public, impose taxes. Some types of subdivisions, such as townships, may be incorporated or unincorporated. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the seat of its respective county, a county seat is usually, but not always, an incorporated municipality. The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia, likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey, though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township, in some of the colonial states, county seats include or formerly included Court House as part of their name. Most counties have only one county seat, an example is Harrison County, Mississippi, which lists both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats. The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult, there have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride for the towns involved. There are 36 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states, Coffee County, for example, the official county seat is Greensboro, but an additional courthouse has been located in nearby High Point since 1938. For example, Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County, Florida, in New England, the town, not the county, is the primary division of local government. Historically, counties in this region have served mainly as dividing lines for the judicial systems. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no county level of government and thus no county seats, in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine the county seats are legally designated shire towns. County government consists only of a Superior Court and Sheriff, both located in the shire town. Bennington County has two towns, but the Sheriff is located in Bennington. In Massachusetts, most government functions which would otherwise be performed by county governments in other states are performed by town governments. As such, Massachusetts has dissolved many of its county governments, two counties in South Dakota have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county

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Georgetown, Texas
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Georgetown is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States, with a population of 47400 at the 2010 census and a population of 63,716 at the 2016 Census Estimate. It is 30 miles from Austin, Southwestern University, the oldest university in Texas, was founded in 1840 and is located in Georgetown about one-half mile from the historic square. Sun City Texas is a large retirement-oriented and age-restricted development that constitutes more than one-third of Georgetowns population, Georgetown has a notable range of Victorian commercial and residential architecture. Georgetown is also known as the Red Poppy Capital of Texas for the red poppy wildflowers planted throughout the city, Georgetowns Red Poppy Festival, which attracts up to 30,000 visitors annually, is held in April each year on the historic square. Georgetown has been the site of habitation since at least 9,000 B. C. The earliest known inhabitants of the county, during the late Pleistocene, can be linked to the Clovis culture and that first appeared around 9200 B. C. and possibly as early as 11,500 B. C. at the end of the last glacial period. One of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed The Leanderthal Lady because of its age and proximity to nearby community Leander, Texas. The site is immediately southwest of Georgetown and was discovered by accident by Texas Department of Transportation workers while core samples for a new highway were being drilled. The site has been studied for many years, and samples carbon date the findings to the Pleistocene period. During the eighteenth century made the transition to a horse culture. There also appear to have small numbers of Kiowa, Yojuane, Tawakoni. Even after most Native Americans were crowded out by white settlement, Georgetown was named for George Washington Glasscock who donated the land for the new town. Early American and Swedish pioneers were attracted to the abundance of timber and good. In addition, the land was inexpensive and extremely fertile, Georgetown, Texas, is the county seat of Williamson County, which was formed on March 13,1848 after the early settlers petitioned the State Legislature to create it out of Milam County. The county was originally to have been named San Gabriel County, but was named after Robert McAlpin Williamson. Georgetown was a community for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Shawnee Trail, a trail that led from Texas to the railcenters in Kansas and Missouri. The establishment of Southwestern University in 1873 and construction of a railroad in 1878 contributed to the towns growth, a stable economy developed, based largely on agricultural activity

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City
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A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, a big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas. Once a city expands far enough to another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis. Damascus is arguably the oldest city in the world, in terms of population, the largest city proper is Shanghai, while the fastest-growing is Dubai. There is not enough evidence to assert what conditions gave rise to the first cities, some theorists have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces. The conventional view holds that cities first formed after the Neolithic revolution, the Neolithic revolution brought agriculture, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development. The advent of farming encouraged hunter-gatherers to abandon nomadic lifestyles and to settle near others who lived by agricultural production, the increased population density encouraged by farming and the increased output of food per unit of land created conditions that seem more suitable for city-like activities. In his book, Cities and Economic Development, Paul Bairoch takes up position in his argument that agricultural activity appears necessary before true cities can form. According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population. To illustrate this point, Bairoch offers an example, Western Europe during the pre-Neolithic, when the cost of transport is taken into account, the figure rises to 200,000 square kilometres. Bairoch noted that this is roughly the size of Great Britain, the urban theorist Jane Jacobs suggests that city formation preceded the birth of agriculture, but this view is not widely accepted. In his book City Economics, Brendan OFlaherty asserts Cities could persist—as they have for thousands of years—only if their advantages offset the disadvantages, OFlaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts usually associated with businesses. Their applications are seen in more basic economic systems as well, increasing returns to scale occurs when doubling all inputs more than doubles the output an activity has economies of scale if doubling output less than doubles cost. To offer an example of these concepts, OFlaherty makes use of one of the oldest reasons why cities were built, in this example, the inputs are anything that would be used for protection and the output is the area protected and everything of value contained in it. OFlaherty then asks that we suppose the protected area is square, the advantage is expressed as, O = s 2, where O is the output and s stands for the length of a side. This equation shows that output is proportional to the square of the length of a side, the inputs depend on the length of the perimeter, I =4 s, where I stands for the quantity of inputs. So there are increasing returns to scale, O = I2 /16 and this equation shows that with twice the inputs, you produce quadruple the output

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Bartlett, Texas
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Bartlett is a city in Bell and Williamson counties in the U. S. state of Texas. The population was 1,623 at the 2010 census, Bartlett lies in two counties as well as two metropolitan areas. Bartlett is located at 30°47′44″N 97°25′50″W and it is 24 miles south of Temple and 50 miles northeast of downtown Austin. The city straddles the line between Bell and Williamson counties, the center of the city is mostly in Bell County, but the slight majority of the citys area is in Williamson County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.2 square miles, of which 0.004 square miles. At the 2000 census, there were 1,675 people,571 households and 404 families residing in the city, the population density was 1,373.3 per square mile. There were 638 housing units at a density of 523.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 61. 61% White,17. 97% African American,0. 66% Native American,0. 06% Asian,16. 84% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 33. 07% of the population. 27. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.40. Age distribution was 29. 3% under the age of 18,8. 8% from 18 to 24,23. 0% from 25 to 44,19. 9% from 45 to 64, the median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 91.2 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.9 males. The median household income was $26,094, and the family income was $35,595. Males had an income of $22,273 versus $21,016 for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,649, about 21. 1% of families and 25. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29. 5% of those under age 18 and 30. 3% of those age 65 or over. Bartlett is served by the Bartlett Independent School District and is home to the Bartlett High School Bulldogs, there are plans to renovate the schools currently up for a vote. Henry Ray Clark, artist, 1936-2006 John C, holland, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–67 The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Bartlett has a subtropical climate. Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce Williamson County Historical Commission page Bartlett from the Handbook of Texas Online

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Cedar Park, Texas
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Cedar Park is a city in Williamson County in the State of Texas. The population was 48937 at the 2010 census, according to the 2016 Census Estimate, the population is 70,614. A small portion of the city extends into neighboring Travis County, the city is a major suburb of Austin, the center of which is approximately 16 miles to the southeast. Cedar Park is located at 30°30′24″N 97°49′49″W and it lies mostly in Williamson County, although a small amount extends into Travis County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 25.6 sq mi, of which,25.3 sq mi of it is land. Cedar Park is generally bisected north to south by U. S. Route 183, a bypass route, the 183A toll road, also runs through Cedar Park and opened to traffic on March 15,2007. Major east-west routes include RM-1431/Whitestone Boulevard and Cypress Creek/Brushy Creek Road, Cedar Park was incorporated in 1973 with a council-manager system of local government. The mayor and councilmembers place two, place four and place six are elected in even years, councilmembers place one, place three and place five are elected in odd years. Cedar Park is represented in Texas House of Representatives by former Cedar Park Councilmember Republican Tony Dale, in the State Senate, Cedar Park is represented by Republican Charles Schwertner. Cedar Park is home to two minor league professional teams. The Texas Stars of the American Hockey League and the Austin Spurs of the NBA Development League both play home games at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, a major public skate park facility opened in Cedar Park in July 2010. The 15, 000-square-foot facility features a bowl, mini bowl. Cedar Park is served primarily by the Leander Independent School District, and is home to the Cedar Park High School Timberwolves, Cedar Park won its first football state championship on December 21,2012. The Timberwolves defeated Lancaster 17-7 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, winning the Class 4A, in 2015, the Timberwolves won both state titles in Band and Football with the latter beating Frisco Lone Star for the Class 5a, Division II state championship. Cedar Park High school is the only Texas high school to win UIL state titles in both band and football in the same year, neighborhoods in the southern and easternmost areas of the city are wholly or partially served by the Round Rock Independent School District. Some of these neighborhoods or the Ranch at Brushy Creek, or Walsh Trails, some elementary schools that serve these neighborhoods are Old Town, or Patsy Sommer. The middle school Walsh, and the high school Round Rock also serve these areas, the city is home to the Cypress Creek campus of Austin Community College, which was significantly expanded in 2008 to accommodate the areas growing population. The Texas Psychological Association is located in the city, the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park was completed in 2009 and hosts a wide array of live entertainment events

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Coupland, Texas
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Coupland is a city in southeastern Williamson County, Texas, United States. According to the 2014 Population Estimate of the United States Census, Coupland is home to the Coupland Inn and Dancehall, an eatery, bed and breakfast, and dance hall which has been in the community for nearly 100 years. Couplands athletic teams are the Cowboys, the Coupland Independent School District serves area students. Upon graduation, the students go to Elgin or Taylor for high school courses. In 1859, Morgan C. Hamilton bought large tracks of land along Brushy Creek from Shiloh to Rices Crossing, Hamilton died in 1883, willing the land to his nephew, Theodore Van Buren Coupland. Mr. Coupland sold a 100-foot right-of-way to the Taylor, Bastrop, two Taylor men subsequently formed the Coupland City Corporation to subdivide and sell land for the newly formed unincorporated community of Coupland. Coupland residents voted overwhelmingly to incorporate on November 6,2012, the City of Coupland held its first City Council elections on May 13,2013, with Jack Piper running unopposed for Mayor. Coupland is located at 30°27′25″N 97°23′33″W and these coordinates place the city just to the south of the city of Taylor and just east of the city of Pflugerville. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a land area of 1.926 square miles

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Florence, Texas
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Florence is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,136 at the 2010 census, since 2000, the territorial limits of Florence has grown by 8%. Florence is located about 13 miles west from Georgetown and 40 miles north of Austin in northwestern Williamson County, Florence is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. The site was settled in the early 1850s and briefly called Brooksville, by 1857 it was known as Florence, when its first post office was established. Florence is located at 30°50′34″N 97°47′32″W and this is 40 miles north of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 0.8 square miles. As of the census of 2009, the population was 1,148, in 2000, there were 1,054 people,381 households, and 275 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,300.1 people per square mile, there were 410 housing units at an average density of 505.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 89. 28% White,0. 85% African American,1. 04% Native American,0. 28% Asian,6. 74% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 19. 92% of the population. 23. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.29. In the city, the population was out with 31. 1% under the age of 18,8. 6% from 18 to 24,28. 0% from 25 to 44,18. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 33 years, for every 100 females there were 99.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males, the median income for a household in the city was $36,250, and the median income for a family was $42,059. Males had an income of $30,500 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,964, about 9. 7% of families and 14. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20. 2% of those under age 18 and 9. 2% of those age 65 or over. The City of Florence is served by the Florence Independent School District, Florence High School is the only high school in Texas that has a complete meat processing laboratory and full-service meat market. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Florence has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. Florence from the Handbook of Texas Online Williamson County page on Florence

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Granger, Texas
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Granger is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,419 at the 2010 census, Granger was the site for the filming of the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the 2010 remake of the movie True Grit, as well as an episode of the NBC drama Revolution. In the late 19th century, Granger was one of the centers of the large Moravian Czech immigrant population in Texas and this Czech Texan heritage is evidenced by the historic Catholic Church, Czech Brethren Church, and SPJST hall. Jno P. Trlica, the son of a Moravian immigrant and his photos offer a rare look into the places and people of Granger in the early 20th century. Granger is located at 30°43′05″N 97°26′28″W,36 miles northeast of Austin, Granger Lake is located just east of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 0.7 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,419 people,502 households, the population density was 1,951.6 people per square mile. There were 565 housing units at a density of 848. 8/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 81. 37% White,8. 55% African American,0. 31% Native American,0. 31% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,8. 47% from other races, and 0. 92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25. 40% of the population,33. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 19. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the family size was 3.20. In the city, the population was out with 27. 0% under the age of 18,7. 8% from 18 to 24,25. 5% from 25 to 44,18. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 89.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.9 males, the median income for a household in the city was $32,542, and the median income for a family was $37,188. Males had an income of $30,000 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,254, about 11. 5% of families and 12. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12. 6% of those under age 18 and 21. 3% of those age 65 or over. The City of Granger is served by the Granger Independent School District and it is home of the Granger Lions. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Granger has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps

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Jarrell, Texas
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Jarrell is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States, and is located about 12 miles north of Georgetown, Texas, or about 38 miles north of Austin. It was incorporate as a city in 2001, the total population is 984 according to the 2010 census. The total population for Sonterra West is estimated for 2014 to be 3,000, founded in 1909 by real estate developer O. D. Haeber, the town was settled at the intersection of an old stagecoach road, soon after the railroad was completed, a saloon, two stores, a post office, and a bank were built. Because of the proximity of Jarrell to the railroad, the residents of nearby Corn Hill moved to the town, the city reached a population peak of 500 residents in 1914. The closing of the railway and the decline of the industry, however. At one point, Jarrell had only 200 residents, after this low point, the city experienced a recovery that increased its population to 410 by 1990. Over 15 new businesses opened in Jarrell in 2009, on May 27,1997, the town suffered heavily from the destructive F5 Jarrell Tornado, which obliterated the Double Creek Estates subdivision, killing 27 people plus 300 cattle and horses. In 2004, Sonterra West Master Plan Community began development adjacent to Jarrell, TX, Sonterra West is a Municipal Utility District. A MUD is a district or other governmental jurisdiction that provides public utilities to district residents. Although adjacent to the city and very much part of Jarrell, Sonterra West has a population of well over 3,000. Couple this with the population of the City of Jarrell and you have thriving community, Jarrell is served by the Jarrell Independent School District. The current Mayor of Jarrell is Larry Bush and the City Manager is Mel Yantis, City council meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at City Hall. Jarrell Emergency services are provided by the Jarrell Volunteer Fire Department operating under Williamson County ESD#5, the Citys chief of police is Roger Thompson. The Police department serves a population and maintains a very low crime rate. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Jarrell has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. Official City of Jarrell Website Williamson County Historical Commission page on Jarrell Jarrell from the Handbook of Texas Online Official Jarrell VFD Website

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Leander, Texas
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Leander is a city in Williamson and Travis counties in the U. S. state of Texas. The population was 26,521 at the 2010 census, the population was 37,889 at the 2016 census estimate It is the fourth fastest-growing city in the state of Texas, a suburb just north of Austin, and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Leander was established in 1882 on land sold by the Austin, the town was named in honor of Leander Catfish Brown, one of the railroad officials responsible for the completion of the line. It was near Leander that the Leanderthal Lady, a skeleton dating back 10,000 to 13,000 years, was discovered, in August and September 2011, destructive wildfires swept through two central Leander neighborhoods, burning a total of 330 acres and destroying 26 homes. Leander is located at 30°33′40″N 97°51′37″W, about 22 miles northwest of Austin, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.5 square miles. None of the area is covered with water, Leander is a jurisdiction member of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Leander Station also has access to express bus lines, and includes a park. Leander is the center of the Leander Independent School District, as of the census of 2000, there were 7,596 people,2,522 households, and 2,042 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,016.2 people per square mile, there were 2,612 housing units at an average density of 349.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 86. 22% White,2. 91% African American,0. 92% Native American,0. 51% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,6. 94% from other races, and 2. 37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15. 94% of the population. 51. 7% of households have children under the age of 18 living with them,65. 5% were married couples living together,10. 5% had a householder with no husband present. 14. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.01 and the average family size was 3.33. In the city, the population was out with 33. 5% under the age of 18,7. 6% from 18 to 24,38. 6% from 25 to 44,15. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years, for every 100 females there were 102.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.0 males, the median income for a household in the city was $53,504, and the median income for a family was $55,051. Males had an income of $36,021 versus $27,413 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,263, about 2. 5% of families and 4. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 6% of those under age 18 and 3. 0% of those age 65 or over

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Liberty Hill, Texas
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Liberty Hill is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population is 1608 people as of March 2012 Census Bureau estimates, Liberty Hill is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Liberty Hill is located at 30°39′51″N 97°54′41″W, about 29 miles northwest of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.9 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 967 people,337 households, the population density was 738.7 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 76. 1% White,1. 6% African American,1. 7% Native American,0. 8% Asian,9. 5% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 19. 3% of the population. 27. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.19. In the city, the population was out with 34. 9% under the age of 18. The median age was 34.2 years, the median income for a household in the city was $56,955.00, and the median income for a family was $73,125.00. Males had an income of $43,098.00 versus $40,481.00 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,112, about 9. 1% of families and 14. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25. 9% of those under age 18. Liberty Hill has two newspapers, The Liberty Hill Independent and The Liberty Hill Leader. In 1976, Liberty Hill hosted an International Sculpture Symposium, which created the Liberty Hill International Sculpture Park, the park hosts 27 monumental pieces made from granite, concrete, bronze, and limestone. The City of Liberty Hill is served by the Liberty Hill Independent School District, in the 2004-2005 academic year, the Liberty Hill High School spelling team won first place at the UIL State Competition in division 3A. Trey Hillman-Bench coach for the Houston Astros and former manager for the Kansas City Royals, the Liberty Hill High School football team won the Texas Football State Championship in 3A Division II against Celina in 2006 and in 3A Division I against Gilmer in 2007. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Liberty Hill has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. Williamson County Historical Commission page on Liberty Hill Liberty Hill from the Handbook of Texas Online

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Pflugerville, Texas
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Pflugerville /ˈfluːɡərvɪl/ is a city in Travis County, Texas with a small portion in Williamson County. The population was 46,936 at the 2010 census, Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and part of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos Metropolitan Statistical Area. Pflugerville is located at 30°26′46″N 97°37′26″W,14 miles northeast of downtown Austin along FM1825 in northern Travis County, Pflugerville is situated 15 miles northeast of the Colorado River. According to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, the city has a land area of 22.32 square miles. And Pflugerville has 40.39 square miles in the extraterritorial jurisdiction, the city has one body of water - Lake Pflugerville - created in 2005 to serve as a water reservoir and recreation area, and two creeks, Gilleland Creek and Wilbarger Creek. Public education in the city of Pflugerville is provided by the Pflugerville Independent School District, the district encompasses all or part of six municipalities including Pflugerville, Austin, Coupland, Hutto, Manor and Round Rock. As of the 2016-2017 school year, PfISD has an enrollment of approximately 24,000 students and operated 3 high schools,6 middle schools,20 elementary schools, and 2 alternative campuses. In response to a recent influx of sales tax revenue. In November 2006, the first parts of a central Texas tollway system opened, including State Highway 130, approximately three miles of 130 run through Pflugerville, including the intersection of 45 and 130. The city is using this land to major commercial development, thereby improving its tax base. Davids HealthCare 24-hour emergency care facility, with its close proximity to the Austin Executive Airport and SH130, the connectivity of the area is attracting businesses and bringing jobs to Pflugerville. The PCDC is an entity that reports to City Council and is the economic arm for Pflugerville. In 2010, RRE Austin Solar broke ground on what will be one of the nations largest solar farms, the 60 MW Pflugerville Solar Farm, EOS and Medway Plastics are planned tenants. The proposed $21-million water park would consist of a 15-acre water park along with a 5-acre adventure park that would become Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville the largest water park in the company, Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville opened June 2014. The operator of Hawaiian Falls water and adventure parks defaulted on the October 2015 payment for Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville, Hawaiian Falls operator caught up with payments by December 18,2015. The operator again defaulted on lease payments beginning in September 2016, the city began negotiations with Typhoon Texas to take over the water park lease. The area was settled by German immigrant Henry Pfluger, Sr. Pfluger had been a farmer in Germany, but lost all of his property during the Prussian War

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Round Rock, Texas
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Round Rock is a city in the U. S. state of Texas, located in Williamson County, which is a part of the Greater Austin, Texas metropolitan area. The population was 99,887 at the 2010 census, located about 20 miles north of downtown Austin, Round Rock shares a common border with Austin at Texas State Highway 45. In August 2008, Money magazine named Round Rock as the seventh-best American small city in which to live, Round Rock was the only Texas city to make the Top 10. In a CNN article dated July 1,2009, Round Rock was listed as the second fastest-growing city in the country, Round Rock has a strong public education system. According to the 2008 ratings from the Texas Education Agency, the Round Rock Independent School District ranks among the best in the state, of 42 schools within it, twelve were rated exemplary and eleven are recognized. Round Rock is perhaps best known as the headquarters of Dell. Round Rock and Williamson County have been the site of habitation since at least 9,200 BC. One of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed The Leanderthal Lady because of its age and proximity to Leander, Texas. The site is 4 miles west of Round Rock and was discovered by accident by Texas Department of Transportation workers while drilling core samples for a new highway. The site has been studied for many years and samples carbon date to this particular Pleistocene period at approximately 10,500 years ago. These archeology dig sites show a greater volume United Sates of America evidence of Archaic Period inhabitants based on relics. During the 18th century they made the transition to a horse culture, there also appear to have been small numbers of Kiowa, Yojuane, Tawakoni, and Mayeye Native-Americans living in the county at the time of the earliest Anglo settlements. After they were crowded out by white settlement, the Comanches continued to raid settlements in the county until the 1860s, in the late 19th century, Native Americans were being pushed out of Central Texas. As the area developed into a rural Anglo community, some of the paved roads actually followed the original Native-American pathways. One famous immigration route passed through Round Rock and is called the Double File Trail because the path was wide enough for two horsemen to ride side-by-side. It is part of a trail from north Texas that crossed the San Gabriel River in Georgetown, Brushy Creek in Round Rock. An elementary school in the Round Rock school district is named for the trail, in 1851, a small community was formed on the banks of Brushy Creek, near a large round and anvil-shaped rock located in the middle of the creek. This round rock marked a convenient low-water crossing for wagons, horses, the first postmaster called the community Brushy, and the creek was called Brushy Creek

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Taylor, Texas
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Taylor is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,575 at the 2000 census, it was 15,191 at the 2010 census, in 1876 the Texas Land Company auctioned lots in anticipation of the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad when Taylor was founded that year. The city was named after Edward Moses Taylor, a railroad official, immigrants from Moravia and Bohemia and other Slavic states, as well as from Germany and Austria, helped establish the town. It soon became a shipping point for cattle, grain. By 1878 the town had 1,000 residents and thirty-two businesses, recovery was rapid, however, and more substantial buildings were constructed. In 1882 the Taylor, Bastrop and Houston Railway reached the community, and machine shops, in 1882 the town was incorporated with a mayor-council form of city government, and in 1883 a public school system replaced a number of private schools. By 1890 Taylor had two banks and the first savings and loan institution in Texas, an electric company, a cotton compress, and several newspapers were among the new enterprises. A water line from the San Gabriel River, a 100-man volunteer fire department, imported and local entertainment, between the years 2000 and 2010, the population grew 11. 9%, from 13575 to 15191, about 1. 2% per year. Taylor is located at 30°34′21″N 97°25′00″W, about 9 miles east of Hutto and 8 miles south of Granger, Taylor is about 29 miles northeast of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 13.6 square miles. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Taylor has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 15,191 people, the population change between 2000 and 2010 was 11. 9%. The racial makeup of the city was 71. 7% White,10. 2% African American,1. 2% Native American,0. 7% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 42. 8% of the population. 7. 7% of the population was under 5 years old,27. 5% were under 18 years old, the percent of high school graduates at age 25+ between the years 2005 and 2009 was 75. 9%. The percentage of the population having a degree or higher, age 25 or more. This is somewhat lower than the 25. 4% Statewide average, the Per-Capita Income of $18,859 was lower than the State average of $24,318, and the Median Household Income of $41,814 was lower than the State average of $48,199. The percentage of persons living at or below the poverty level in 2009 was 15. 4%, in 2011, Taylor Independent School District was quoted as being a Gem by the Texas Education Agency, District XIX, for the improvements made to the curriculum and programming. In addition, Taylor ISD won six Gold Performance Standard awards for academic performance, the City of Taylor is home to the Taylor High School Ducks

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Thorndale, Texas
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Thorndale is a city in Milam, Texas, with a small part in Williamson. The population was 1,336 at the 2010 census, antonio Gómez, a Mexican-American teenager, was lynched on June 19,1911, in Thorndale following the stabbing of a German-American garage owner, Charles Zieschang. Concerns about prejudice and violence against Mexican-American youths, such as the Gómez hanging, inspired Jovita Idár, Thorndale is located at 30°36′45″N 97°12′16″W, about 40 miles northeast of Austin and 12 miles west of Rockdale. Most of the city lies in Milam County, with only a portion in Williamson County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.0 square miles. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Thorndale has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,278 people,485 households, the population density was 1,307.2 people per square mile. There were 542 housing units at a density of 554. 4/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 83. 26% White,6. 81% African American,0. 78% Native American,0. 16% Asian,6. 18% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 17. 14% of the population. 24. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.10. In the city, the population was out with 29. 7% under the age of 18,7. 8% from 18 to 24,27. 2% from 25 to 44,20. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.9 males, the median income for a household in the city was $33,684, and the median income for a family was $40,625. Males had an income of $33,125 versus $21,786 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,722, about 4. 5% of families and 9. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8. 9% of those under age 18 and 21. 0% of those age 65 or over. The City of Thorndale is served by the Thorndale Independent School District, Thorndale has a number of churches, representing several denominations. Thorndale was where the vast majority of the photography and locations for the 2002 movie The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid. The Thorndale High School baseball stadium, the main street

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Thrall, Texas
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Thrall is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 710 at the 2000 census, and 839 at the 2010 census, by 2011, the population had grown to 898. The Thrall Womens Powerlifting team won the 2008 and 2009 womens state championships, Thrall is located at 30°35′19″N 97°17′55″W, about 35 miles northeast of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 0.4 square miles. It is located in Williamson county, as of the census of 2000, there were 710 people,255 households, and 189 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,746.8 people per square mile, there were 264 housing units at an average density of 649. 5/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 70. 00% White,8. 59% African American,1. 41% Native American,0. 14% Pacific Islander,18. 03% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 35. 92% of the population. 23. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 15. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.28. In the city, the population was out with 30. 1% under the age of 18,6. 6% from 18 to 24,27. 6% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 91.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.6 males, the median income for a household in the city was $34,205, and the median income for a family was $36,845. Males had an income of $28,897 versus $17,813 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,807, about 12. 4% of families and 19. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20. 7% of those under age 18 and 21. 5% of those age 65 or over. The city of Thrall is served by the Thrall Independent School District, on September 9 and 10,1921, the remnants of a hurricane moved over Williamson County. The center of the storm became stationary over Thrall, dropping a total of 39.7 inches of rain in 36 hours. Eighty-seven people drowned in and near Taylor, and 93 in Williamson County, Thrall rainfall was 23.4 inches during 6 hours,31.8 in. during 12 hours, and 36.4 in. during 18 hours. This storm caused the most deadly floods in Texas, with a total of 215 fatalities, Thrall from the Handbook of Texas Online

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Weir, Texas
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Weir is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 450 at the 2010 census, Weir is located at 30°40′30″N 97°35′16″W, about six miles northeast of Georgetown and 30 miles north of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.6 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 591 people,216 households, the population density was 371.0 people per square mile. There were 229 housing units at a density of 143. 7/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 90. 36% White,1. 02% African American,2. 88% Native American,4. 06% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 16. 92% of the population. Weirs current mayor is Mervin Walker,21. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the family size was 3.19. In the city, the population was out with 31. 1% under the age of 18,7. 6% from 18 to 24,32. 5% from 25 to 44,20. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 92.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males, the median income for a household in the city was $46,029, and the median income for a family was $47,813. Males had an income of $32,216 versus $22,386 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,361, about 3. 6% of families and 5. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5. 9% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. Tennessee-native Thomas Calvin Weir came to Williamson County in 1856 and he bought land in this area and became a prosperous farmer. Alabaman James Francis Towns came in 1870 and settled nearby on the San Gabriel River and he and his brother, Robert W. Towns, operated a gin and blacksmith shop, as well as Towns Mill. In the late 19th century, the communities of Weir and Townsville grew around these early settlers, churches included Baptist and Presbyterian congregations that met at the prairie springs school, as well as an African American church that met in a school near Mankins Crossing. Calvin Weirs daughter, Lucy, served as postmaster at the post office in Townsville, the communities developed similarly until 1893, when the Georgetown and Granger Railroad came through Weir, bypassing Townsville. In 1903, after the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-Road bought the line, known as the Katy, most area residents moved into the town of Weir, the Katy Lake Resort, created by Mkt on the river at Towns Mill Dam, attracted tourists to the area

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Brushy Creek, Texas
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Brushy Creek is a census-designated place in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 21,764 at the 2010 census, Brushy Creek is located at 30°30′39″N 97°44′05″W, just west of Round Rock along the shore of Brushy Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has an area of 8.7 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 15,371 people,4,805 households, the population density was 1,764.8 people per square mile. There were 4,919 housing units at a density of 564. 8/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 82. 95% White,4. 08% African American,0. 27% Native American,6. 81% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,3. 71% from other races, and 2. 09% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10. 23% of the population,8. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 1. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.18 and the family size was 3.39. In the CDP, the population was out with 35. 0% under the age of 18,4. 7% from 18 to 24,39. 1% from 25 to 44,17. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.7 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $84,472, and the median income for a family was $85,370. Males had an income of $60,409 versus $39,542 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $28,129, about 1. 2% of families and 1. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 0% of those under age 18 and 1. 3% of those age 65 or over. The following diagram represents localities within a 12 kilometres radius of Brushy Creek

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Jollyville, Texas
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Jollyville is a census-designated place in Travis and Williamson counties in Texas. It is a neighborhood in north Austin, the population was 16,151 at the 2010 census. The area was first settled by Henry Rhodes after obtaining a grant in 1841 of about 1,000 acres from the Republic of Texas. The name, however, comes from a settler, John G. Jolly. John and his wife, Nancy Isabell Jolly, operated a blacksmith shop, the Jollys donated land for a school and the cemetery in which they were eventually buried. Jollyville remained lightly settled for decades, only twenty families lived in the area in 1960, eventually, the growth of nearby Austin led to the development of Jollyville as a suburban community. Jollyville is located at 30°27′12″N 97°45′45″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.9 sq mi, all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 15,813 people,5,897 households, the population density was 2,681.7 people per square mile. There were 5,993 housing units at a density of 1,016. 4/sq mi. The racial makeup of the area was 79. 81% White,4. 69% African American,0. 31% Native American,8. 52% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,4. 36% from other races, and 2. 28% from two or more races. 11. 43% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,20. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 1. 6% had someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the family size was 3.17. In the CDP, the population was out with 28. 7% under the age of 18,8. 4% from 18 to 24,41. 3% from 25 to 44,18. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age is 32 years, for every 100 females there were 99.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.7 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $66,999, and the median income for a family was $74,851. Males had an income of $50,048 versus $32,004 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $28,113,2. 7% of the population and 2. 2% of families were living below the poverty line, including 1. 7% of those under the age of 18 and 6. 2% of those 65 and older. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Jollyville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps

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Serenada, Texas
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Serenada is a census-designated place in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,641 at the 2010 census and those living in Serenada have Georgetown addresses. Serenada is located at 30°41′17″N 97°41′54″W, according to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has a total area of 3.5 square miles, all of it land. Prior to the 2010 census, part of the CDP was annexed to the city of Georgetown, decreasing the area of 2.6 square miles. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Serenada has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,847 people,641 households, the population density was 520.8 people per square mile. There were 651 housing units at a density of 183. 6/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 96. 97% White,0. 65% African American,0. 27% Native American,0. 43% Asian,0. 16% Pacific Islander,0. 87% from other races, and 0. 65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 33% of the population,8. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.88 and the family size was 3.04. In the CDP, the population was out with 26. 2% under the age of 18,4. 7% from 18 to 24,21. 5% from 25 to 44,35. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44 years, for every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.1 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $78,957, and the median income for a family was $82,768. Males had an income of $60,234 versus $35,938 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $41,110, none of the families and 0. 4% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 3. 1% of those over 64. Serenada is served by the Georgetown Independent School District

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Walburg, Texas
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Walburg is a German American settlement. With its heritage of buildings from the late 1890s, Walburg is a site for films, including Michael. Walburg also hosted filming for the motion picture Stars Over Henrietta, Walburg is known for being a German farming community and has two Lutheran churches, one an LCMS congregation and one LCMC Congregation. Zion Lutheran sits on a hill overlooking the community and hosts an Annual Wurstbraten which attracts, st. Peter Lutheran is the other Lutheran Church in the immediate vicinity of Walburg. Walburg also hosts several notable businesses and previously had its own bank, Walburg State Bank, as it was once known, survived independently even through several national banking collapses. It was sold in the early 1990s and closed its Walburg location, Walburg is home to two restaurants, Dales Essenhaus and The Walburg Restaurant. Both feature live music venues which can be heard through the hills, Walburg is also home to two graveyards. Zion Lutherans graveyard is right next to the church, the other graveyard is slightly farther down the road. This one contains a tree from which an alleged horse thief in the 1800s was hanged. It is often said that his ghost haunts the town, Walburg, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online

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Ghost town
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A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions, visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry. The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat is a ghost town that is the de jure capital of Montserrat and it was rendered uninhabitable by volcanic ash from an eruption. The definition of a ghost town varies between individuals, and between cultures, lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as a town for which the reason for being no longer exists. Some believe that any settlement with visible tangible remains should not be called a ghost town, others say, conversely, whether or not the settlement must be completely deserted, or may contain a small population, is also a matter for debate. Generally, though, the term is used in a sense, encompassing any. The American author Lambert Florins preferred definition of a ghost town was simply a shadowy semblance of a former self, a town can also be abandoned when it is part of an exclusion zone due to natural or man-made causes. Ghost towns may result when the activity or resource that created a boomtown is depleted or the resource economy undergoes a bust. Boomtowns can often decrease in size as fast as they initially grew, sometimes, all or nearly the entire population can desert the town, resulting in a ghost town. The dismantling of a boomtown can often occur on a planned basis, modular buildings can be used to facilitate the process. A gold rush would often bring intensive but short-lived economic activity to a remote village, in other cases, the reason for abandonment can arise from a towns intended economic function shifting to another, nearby place. This happened to Collingwood, Queensland in Outback Australia when nearby Winton outperformed Collingwood as a centre for the livestock-raising industry. The railway reached Winton in 1899, linking it with the rest of Queensland, the Middle East has many ghost towns that were created when the shifting of politics or the fall of empires caused capital cities to be socially or economically unviable, such as Ctesiphon. The rise of condominium investment caused for real estate bubbles also leads to a ghost town, as real estate prices rise, such examples include China and Canada, where housing is often used as an investment rather than for habitation. Railroads and roads bypassing or no longer reaching a town can create a ghost town. This was the case in many of the ghost towns along Ontarios historic Opeongo Line, some ghost towns were founded along railways where steam trains would stop at periodic intervals to take on water. Amboy, California was part of one series of villages along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad across the Mojave Desert. River re-routing is another factor, one example being the towns along the Aral Sea, Ghost towns may be created when land is expropriated by a government and residents are required to relocate

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Palm Valley, Williamson County, Texas
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Palm Valley is a ghost town on US Route 79, east of Round Rock, in the county of Williamson, in the U. S. state of Texas. The community was named for its founder, Swedish settler Anna Palm, a widow with six sons, the family lived in tents, and eventually built a house. The Palm family was followed by other Swedish immigrants. The Palm Valley Lutheran Church was built in 1872 and doubled as a schoolhouse, in 1970, the church was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. Annas son Andrew J. Palm built his own home in 1873, the house was moved to Round Rock in 1976. Two years later the home was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and is open to the public as the Palm House Museum. During its populous years, Palm Valley was primarily a Swedish community and it has since become a ghost town

Unincorporated area
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Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. In some countries, such as in Brazil, Japan, France or the United Kingdom, unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath s

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Sign at Contra Costa Centre Transit Village, an unincorporated community in Contra Costa County, California, United States, north of the city of Walnut Creek.

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Sign prohibiting entry to the Military Area Boletice

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Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee

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Rosslyn, one of many highrise neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia. The county has no cities within its borders, and five times the population density of the state's most populous city, Virginia Beach.

Williamson County, Texas
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Williamson County is a county in the U. S. state of Texas. As of the 2016 census estimate, the population was 545,412, the county is named for Robert McAlpin Williamson, a community leader and veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. Williamson County is part of the Austin-Round Rock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, the two areas are roughly bisecte

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The Williamson County Courthouse after renovation in 2006–2007

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Seal

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Confederate statue at Williamson County courthouse

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A part of Courthouse Square in Georgetown

Texas
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Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Other major cities include Austin, the second most populous state capital in the U. S. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the states struggle for independence from Mexico. The Lone Sta

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Sam Rayburn Reservoir

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Flag

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Texas Hill Country

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Big Bend National Park.

United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean,

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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764

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Flag

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The signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620.

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The Declaration of Independence: the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress in 1776

Hutto, Texas
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Hutto is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, the population was 14,698 at the 2010 census. Hutto is located at 30°32′40″N 97°32′43″W, about seven miles east of Round Rock and 22 miles northeast of Austin, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of

Austin, Texas
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Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. It is the 11th-most populous city in the U. S. and it is the fastest growing large city in the United States and the second most populous capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. As of the U. S. Census Bureaus July 1,2015 estimate and it is the cultural and economic center

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Downtown skyline as seen from Lady Bird Lake

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An 1873 illustration of Edwin Waller's layout for Austin

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Statue of the Goddess of Liberty on the Texas State Capitol Grounds prior to installation on top of the rotunda

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Bob Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin. Its mission is to "tell The Story of Texas".

Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a

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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.

County seat
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A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. In the United States, counties are the subdivisions of a state. Depending on the state, counties may provi

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Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in Renville County, Minnesota, pictured in May 2008.

Georgetown, Texas
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Georgetown is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States, with a population of 47400 at the 2010 census and a population of 63,716 at the 2016 Census Estimate. It is 30 miles from Austin, Southwestern University, the oldest university in Texas, was founded in 1840 and is located in Georgetown about one-half mile from t

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Example of a Clovis fluted blade that is 11,000 years old.

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Location of Georgetown, Texas

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Typical downtown Georgetown buildings on "The Square"

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This 1900–1910 "pattern book" house was moved to Georgetown from Round Rock, Texas, in 2006 and is now located in Georgetown, Texas, overlooking the South San Gabriel River

City
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A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, a big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas. Once a city expands far enough to another city, this region can be deemed a co

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1908 map of Piraeus, the port of Athens, showing the grid plan of the city

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Ancient Ur of Sumer in present-day Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq, one of the world's earliest cities

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Mohenjo-daro, a World Heritage site that was part of the Indus Valley Civilization

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A map dating 1669 showing the location of Multan, Pakistan

Bartlett, Texas
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Bartlett is a city in Bell and Williamson counties in the U. S. state of Texas. The population was 1,623 at the 2010 census, Bartlett lies in two counties as well as two metropolitan areas. Bartlett is located at 30°47′44″N 97°25′50″W and it is 24 miles south of Temple and 50 miles northeast of downtown Austin. The city straddles the line between B

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Bartlett Commercial Historic District

Cedar Park, Texas
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Cedar Park is a city in Williamson County in the State of Texas. The population was 48937 at the 2010 census, according to the 2016 Census Estimate, the population is 70,614. A small portion of the city extends into neighboring Travis County, the city is a major suburb of Austin, the center of which is approximately 16 miles to the southeast. Cedar

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Cedar Park Center

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Logo

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Central city

Coupland, Texas
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Coupland is a city in southeastern Williamson County, Texas, United States. According to the 2014 Population Estimate of the United States Census, Coupland is home to the Coupland Inn and Dancehall, an eatery, bed and breakfast, and dance hall which has been in the community for nearly 100 years. Couplands athletic teams are the Cowboys, the Coupla

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Former train station in Coupland

Florence, Texas
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Florence is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,136 at the 2010 census, since 2000, the territorial limits of Florence has grown by 8%. Florence is located about 13 miles west from Georgetown and 40 miles north of Austin in northwestern Williamson County, Florence is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

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Location of Florence, Texas

Granger, Texas
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Granger is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,419 at the 2010 census, Granger was the site for the filming of the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the 2010 remake of the movie True Grit, as well as an episode of the NBC drama Revolution. In the late 19th century, Granger was one of the centers of t

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Location of Granger, Texas

Jarrell, Texas
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Jarrell is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States, and is located about 12 miles north of Georgetown, Texas, or about 38 miles north of Austin. It was incorporate as a city in 2001, the total population is 984 according to the 2010 census. The total population for Sonterra West is estimated for 2014 to be 3,000, founded in 1909 by real e

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Jarrell City Hall

Leander, Texas
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Leander is a city in Williamson and Travis counties in the U. S. state of Texas. The population was 26,521 at the 2010 census, the population was 37,889 at the 2016 census estimate It is the fourth fastest-growing city in the state of Texas, a suburb just north of Austin, and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Leander was established

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Central city

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Location of Leander, Texas

Liberty Hill, Texas
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Liberty Hill is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population is 1608 people as of March 2012 Census Bureau estimates, Liberty Hill is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Liberty Hill is located at 30°39′51″N 97°54′41″W, about 29 miles northwest of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an a

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Liberty Hill, Texas

Pflugerville, Texas
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Pflugerville /ˈfluːɡərvɪl/ is a city in Travis County, Texas with a small portion in Williamson County. The population was 46,936 at the 2010 census, Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and part of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos Metropolitan Statistical Area. Pflugerville is located at 30°26′46″N 97°37′26″W,14 miles northeast of downtown Austin al

Round Rock, Texas
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Round Rock is a city in the U. S. state of Texas, located in Williamson County, which is a part of the Greater Austin, Texas metropolitan area. The population was 99,887 at the 2010 census, located about 20 miles north of downtown Austin, Round Rock shares a common border with Austin at Texas State Highway 45. In August 2008, Money magazine named R

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This Clovis point is from a period of habitation of approximately 11,500 years ago (image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources).

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Round Rock, Texas

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The "round rock" of Round Rock, Texas, located in Brushy Creek along the historic Chisholm Trail

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The Palm House Museum in Round Rock, Texas

Taylor, Texas
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Taylor is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,575 at the 2000 census, it was 15,191 at the 2010 census, in 1876 the Texas Land Company auctioned lots in anticipation of the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad when Taylor was founded that year. The city was named after Edward Moses Taylor, a rail

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Moody Museum is the home of former Governor Dan Moody

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Downtown Taylor on Main Street (Texas State Highway 95) as it heads south to intersect U.S. Highway 79.

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Not to be confused with Taylor County, Texas.

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Howard Theatre, owned by Georgetown attorney William Bryan Farney and his wife, Marsha Farney, the District 20 member of the Texas House of Representatives from Williamson County

Thorndale, Texas
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Thorndale is a city in Milam, Texas, with a small part in Williamson. The population was 1,336 at the 2010 census, antonio Gómez, a Mexican-American teenager, was lynched on June 19,1911, in Thorndale following the stabbing of a German-American garage owner, Charles Zieschang. Concerns about prejudice and violence against Mexican-American youths, s

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Silos in Thorndale

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U.S. Post Office in Thorndale

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St. Paul Lutheran Church in Thorndale, established in 1891, has a school and a cemetery to the rear of the sanctuary. Its services were originally in German. The current pastor is James K. Mann (2011).

Thrall, Texas
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Thrall is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 710 at the 2000 census, and 839 at the 2010 census, by 2011, the population had grown to 898. The Thrall Womens Powerlifting team won the 2008 and 2009 womens state championships, Thrall is located at 30°35′19″N 97°17′55″W, about 35 miles northeast of Austin. According

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Location of Thrall, Texas

Weir, Texas
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Weir is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 450 at the 2010 census, Weir is located at 30°40′30″N 97°35′16″W, about six miles northeast of Georgetown and 30 miles north of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.6 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 591 people,

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Location of Weir, Texas

Brushy Creek, Texas
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Brushy Creek is a census-designated place in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 21,764 at the 2010 census, Brushy Creek is located at 30°30′39″N 97°44′05″W, just west of Round Rock along the shore of Brushy Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has an area of 8.7 square miles. As of the census

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Location of Brushy Creek, Texas

Jollyville, Texas
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Jollyville is a census-designated place in Travis and Williamson counties in Texas. It is a neighborhood in north Austin, the population was 16,151 at the 2010 census. The area was first settled by Henry Rhodes after obtaining a grant in 1841 of about 1,000 acres from the Republic of Texas. The name, however, comes from a settler, John G. Jolly. Jo

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Jollyville, Texas

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Location of Jollyville, Texas

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Central city

Serenada, Texas
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Serenada is a census-designated place in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,641 at the 2010 census and those living in Serenada have Georgetown addresses. Serenada is located at 30°41′17″N 97°41′54″W, according to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has a total area of 3.5 square miles, all of it land. Prior

Walburg, Texas
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Walburg is a German American settlement. With its heritage of buildings from the late 1890s, Walburg is a site for films, including Michael. Walburg also hosted filming for the motion picture Stars Over Henrietta, Walburg is known for being a German farming community and has two Lutheran churches, one an LCMS congregation and one LCMC Congregation.

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Ghost town
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A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions, visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry. The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montse

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Berlin, Nevada, example of a ghost town.

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Prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha was a modern tourist area.

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Craco, Italy, was abandoned due to a landslide in 1963. Now it is a popular film set.

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Pripyat, Ukraine, was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

Palm Valley, Williamson County, Texas
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Palm Valley is a ghost town on US Route 79, east of Round Rock, in the county of Williamson, in the U. S. state of Texas. The community was named for its founder, Swedish settler Anna Palm, a widow with six sons, the family lived in tents, and eventually built a house. The Palm family was followed by other Swedish immigrants. The Palm Valley Luther